Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

This week, I have one more installment on Gates of Change.

And it's in Second King Seven, and I think this story for most of you will be unfamiliar,

which is good.

It's good.

Because I'm praying that God will use it to speak to you in a personal way and kind of catch you

off guard today and create change in your life. Here's what the Bible says. Second King's

7 verse 1, Elijah said, hear the word of the Lord. You've been listening to your doubts so long. You've

been listening to your dysfunctional so long. You've been listening to your dysfunctions so long. You've been listening to your disappointment so long. But here, the word of the Lord, this is what the

Lord says. It's about this time. Tomorrow, a sea a flower, will sell for a shekel, and two

sias of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria. The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, look,

even this joker, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of heaven, could this happen?

You know how certain people always want to put limits on what God can do?

Tell a secret.

I actually love limitations.

I know that usually in church they say, you know, take the limits off.

I personally love limits.

In fact, I'm calling this final bonus message in the Gates of Change series, embracing limitation.

Embracing limitation.

I think limitation can be a good thing.

I think it's a good thing that sometimes we limit our consumption

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